{"id":25561,"date":"2012-09-24T01:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T01:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25561"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T19:00:47","slug":"blackness-and-transatlantic-irish-identity-celtic-soul-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25561","title":{"rendered":"Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Routledge<\/a>
\n2012-07-11
\n234 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65367-1
\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-415-80189-8
\neBook ISBN: 978-0-203-85989-6<\/p>\n

Lauren Onkey<\/a><\/strong>, Vice President of Education and Public Programs
\nRock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
\nCleveland, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

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Blackness and Transatlantic Irish<\/em> Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed\u2014and thereby created\u2014a “black” identity to explain their experience with colonialism in Ireland and revere African-Americans as a source of spiritual and sexual vitality. Irish-Americans often resisted this identification so as to make a place for themselves in the U.S. However, their representation of an Irish-American identity pivots on a distinction between Irish-Americans and African-Americans. Lauren Onkey argues that one of the most consistent tropes in the assertion of Irish and Irish-American identity is constructed through or against African-Americans, and she maps that trope in the work of writers Roddy Doyle<\/a>, James Farrell<\/a>, Bernard MacLaverty<\/a>, John Boyle O\u2019Reilly<\/a>, and Jimmy Breslin<\/a>; playwright Ned Harrigan<\/a>; political activists Bernadette Devlin<\/a> and Tom Hayden<\/a>; and musicians Van Morrison<\/a>, U2<\/a>, and Black 47<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n